Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [pers pn] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is because certain groups are held to exemplify the working of these laws that their structural positions or social attributes are held to possess a special explanatory power , or to equip them with a special ‘ totalizing ’ consciousness . |
| 2 | This enabled us to calculate the ratio of cortex to ganglion cells for the region enclosed within the labelled sites and to compare it with the same ratio obtained for the rest of the retina . |
| 3 | What is more , we have sought to identify areas of disability that in the past have not had the attention that they deserve , and to meet them with the new benefits . |
| 4 | Therefore , three and a half years after the accident , Dawn accepted the amount offered , which was sufficient to pay back the £70,000 her father had spent on her treatment and a specially adapted car , and to provide her with an ongoing income to cover her living expenses . |
| 5 | It aims to train students in what used to be called " close reading " and to provide them with a critical awareness of the ideological , socio-cultural and historical constraints on the perception of what constitutes " literature " . |
| 6 | The publication by an LEA of a scheme such as Solihull 's is implicitly intended to signal this newly emphasized responsibility to teachers , to persuade them to accept it and to provide them with an agreed agenda for the review . |
| 7 | I read in an old Practical Fishkeeping an article on setting up a South American general community , this set me thinking and I decided to set up a South American Catfish community with a view to keeping some of the more readily-available , but hard to breed catfish and to provide them with the optimum conditions and numbers to hopefully have some breeding success . |
| 8 | Right wing soldiers in the Philippines have written to national newspapers saying they intend to launch a bloodless coup against President Corizon Aquino , and to replace her with a military junta . |
| 9 | Essentially , the committee had agreed to disband COMECON altogether , and to replace it with a new body , to be known as the Organization for International Economic Co-operation ( OIEC ) . |
| 10 | There was also controversy over the Commission 's plans to abolish the zero rating of intra-EC exports with effect from January 1993 , and to replace it with a complex system of approximation under which a central clearing house would apportion VAT payments between the countries involved in a transaction . |
| 11 | The aim was , through the conjunction of good quality paper and inks , to eliminate a certain deadness and flatness inherent in the lithographic process and to replace it with a velvety depth and richness of colouring often lacking in English lithography . |
| 12 | It is nothing more nor less than a determined effort by an immensely powerful bureaucracy to silence independent opinion , and to replace it with a censored , frequently biased , and increasingly bland official view of the state of British tennis today . |
| 13 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 14 | Erm also I mean and to help them with the audio tour , because the audio tour despite all our efforts to be clear about how it works , continually confuses people and they sort of , oh where am I , I thought I was in here . |
| 15 | Given the habit of The Times to diagnose working-class violence as a deterioration of the national character , and to equate it with a Southern ‘ hot-blooded ’ temperament , this was an intriguing turnabout on the racial origins of upper-class ruffianism . |
| 16 | Luckily Ross had at last managed to convince the superintendent of the large apartment block that they had a genuine , urgent need to enter the building — and to supply them with a spare key to the front door . |
| 17 | Unfortunately when we went into the shop to buy his gift we met a couple of his ex-girlfriends who insisted on coming along to remind him of the girls he is leaving behind , and to present him with a small , but wonderfully-packaged gift , a token of our friendship . |
| 18 | It is designed to help participants identify challenges in their ministry and to equip them with the necessary insights and skills to meet these challenges . |
| 19 | Special schools are not therefore designed to isolate mentally handicapped children but to provide them with the specific form of education they require . |
| 20 | My thesis is that the remedy is not to discard voluntary bodies but to infuse them with a new purpose and to make new demands upon them ; and I have suggested that the new purpose is nothing less than to preserve the individuality of man . |